The Monk Temple Reborn

[w153m4n]

maybe Chakra stacks can expire, we don't actually have any other information on what the Chakra stack does other than knowing we need 5 to do Forbidden Chakra / Purification.

[Zamii]

maybe Chakra stacks can expire, we don't actually have any other information on what the Chakra stack does other than knowing we need 5 to do Forbidden Chakra / Purification.

it was confirmed in the live letter when we first found out about chakra that the stacks would not fall off due to time

edited for clarity

[ryuuken]

pretty shocked that out of all the tidbits of information that's been shown/come to light in the past few days, the one key aspect of new monk play is still not clear.

oh well, just gotta wait for full patch notes soon, and just a bit over 10~ hours before we can start the grind

[w153m4n]

I imagine Yoshi-P and the team plotting behind, "let's get the MNKs hyped then meh then hyped again then meh... (then hyped! etc.) we'll see eh, NOT LONG NOW!

[Hakmatic]

I just wanna know if they are going let DRK override our DK buff, and if they are I better be getting my blunt debuff somewhere or I'm going be one pissed off monk.

[Odowla]

I just wanna know if they are going let DRK override our DK buff, and if they are I better be getting my blunt debuff somewhere or I'm going be one pissed off monk.

It's 5% so no probably not
It'll be nice for teams without a monk though. doubt they'd fuck them over like that lol.



If chakra doesnt fall off (source apparantly says it doesnt consume?) then it'll be amazing

edit

actually, looking at the skill descriptions, it says nothing about it falling off.. though, maybe it times out after a certain time period? Not sure. Not really many details about it.

Either way..
I think MAYBE Forbidden costs all 5..which also makes it kind of useless. If it doesnt, unless there's something gating you if it has a recast of 5 seconds. Like, I'm not even sure if you can outthreat a monk doing his rotation + Forbidden every 2 GCD's if it doesnt consume the stacks.
The TP restore is on a 3 minute cooldown, as well - so that I could understand not draining Chakra. Something weird going on here, 5sec recast is VERY short considering the damage output potential. 7 GCD's for potentially 15000 potency over a fight? uhm?

[Zamii]

If chakra doesnt fall off (source apparantly says it doesnt consume?) then it'll be amazing

if you were refering to my post earlier on this, i realized i worded it rather poorly, the chakra stacks dont fall off due to time.

[Odowla]

if you were refering to my post earlier on this, i realized i worded it rather poorly, the chakra stacks dont fall off due to time.

Was your post, yes, but, either way.. a dps skill that doesnt increase DPS? seems fishy.

[Zamii]

Was your post, yes, but, either way.. a dps skill that doesnt increase DPS? seems fishy.

the whole point of the chakra system, at least from my perspective, is to reduce the cost of downtime, we know from previous theorycrafting that if tornado kick was 500 potency, it would be a dps increase to use it in rotation, if only just.
with this in mind we can safely say that if we have enough forced downtime that we can get forbidden chakra, that the use of this in combination with tornado kick as phase transition, we actually gain dps when you exclude downtime, what i mean is if the boss is for example invulnerable, no one can hit the boss, but the monk can still be doing dps during this period if you consider chakra to be a 64 potency skill (320 / 5), it doesnt sound like much but it should change a lot when it comes to monks and forced downtime.

[Hakmatic]

It's 5% so no probably not

Its 10% http://i.imgur.com/rbohVlD.jpg. It is also the higher potency combo out of their rotation, so it will be used with or without a monk.